Electing Personal Sovereignty
Here in the USA, the push is on to vote in the presidential election for one of two candidates - which in theory is a candidate reflecting one's own values - even when the choice of candidates and their espoused values, may be extremely limited.
Voting for a candidate as a civic duty, if one has decided to vote at all, is a personal choice. In the flurry of campaign rhetoric, mud-slinging and self-promotion of national politics, one may also consider the duty one has to oneself as an independent thinker, making choices affecting one's own sphere of activities.
Beyond one's political leanings, knowing oneself as a spark energetic consciousness helps in balancing perspective. Knowing the self as a spark of consciousness, transcends the box of one's physical body and limited conditioning, thinking of oneself as only being male/female, white/color, rich/poor, right/left, young/old etc.
Knowing oneself as a spiritual being, is transcendent information like no other, which evaporates heaps of misinformation about the self, some of which may be culturally self-imposed.
In a secular society, we are encouraged, if not admonished, to totally identify primarily with the circumstance pertaining to the physical body and it's relationships to family, community, nationality as one's only real identity, even though such external factors are constantly in flux - but we remain.
In the midst of being mistakenly self-identified as a skeleton covered with 30 trillion cells of flesh, and bone, many times we are pushed to focus on polarizing choices that are external to our own circumstance and real self-interest, as eternal beings in a temporary social construct.
When one embraces oneself as the conscious energy which is actually animating the physical body, and knowing that consciousness energy is never actually destroyed when the body breaks down and dies, establishes a type of personal eternal sovereignty which can withstand any external political or circumstantial upheavals.
The freedom of choosing not to misidentify with the circumstance one is born into - such as class/gender/race, etc., frees one from massive societal disinformation, while simultaneously establishing ones spiritual connection to a greater body of eternal truth.
Knowing oneself as different from a changing body or grander body politic, establishes one in a sovereign state of freedom and awareness. Such real, yet scarcely reported information precipitates self-actuation in relationship to a greater spiritual reality, which anyone can safely experience.
It is a major relief, discovering another real life beyond cultural and bodily conditioning; knowing that while heading towards a fake finish line, that we are all deathless and part of a greater reality.
Seeing that we have been in Halloween season, here is a musical segue; perhaps an anthem for the temporary costumes and parties we may have found ourselves misidentifying with.
Monster costumes and politics may be a little scary for a child, but can be quite funny when considering that one's identity is conscious energy which changes form, but cannot destroyed by time, or politics.
Voting for a candidate as a civic duty, if one has decided to vote at all, is a personal choice. In the flurry of campaign rhetoric, mud-slinging and self-promotion of national politics, one may also consider the duty one has to oneself as an independent thinker, making choices affecting one's own sphere of activities.
Beyond one's political leanings, knowing oneself as a spark energetic consciousness helps in balancing perspective. Knowing the self as a spark of consciousness, transcends the box of one's physical body and limited conditioning, thinking of oneself as only being male/female, white/color, rich/poor, right/left, young/old etc.
Knowing oneself as a spiritual being, is transcendent information like no other, which evaporates heaps of misinformation about the self, some of which may be culturally self-imposed.
In a secular society, we are encouraged, if not admonished, to totally identify primarily with the circumstance pertaining to the physical body and it's relationships to family, community, nationality as one's only real identity, even though such external factors are constantly in flux - but we remain.
In the midst of being mistakenly self-identified as a skeleton covered with 30 trillion cells of flesh, and bone, many times we are pushed to focus on polarizing choices that are external to our own circumstance and real self-interest, as eternal beings in a temporary social construct.
When one embraces oneself as the conscious energy which is actually animating the physical body, and knowing that consciousness energy is never actually destroyed when the body breaks down and dies, establishes a type of personal eternal sovereignty which can withstand any external political or circumstantial upheavals.
The freedom of choosing not to misidentify with the circumstance one is born into - such as class/gender/race, etc., frees one from massive societal disinformation, while simultaneously establishing ones spiritual connection to a greater body of eternal truth.
Knowing oneself as different from a changing body or grander body politic, establishes one in a sovereign state of freedom and awareness. Such real, yet scarcely reported information precipitates self-actuation in relationship to a greater spiritual reality, which anyone can safely experience.
It is a major relief, discovering another real life beyond cultural and bodily conditioning; knowing that while heading towards a fake finish line, that we are all deathless and part of a greater reality.
Seeing that we have been in Halloween season, here is a musical segue; perhaps an anthem for the temporary costumes and parties we may have found ourselves misidentifying with.
Monster costumes and politics may be a little scary for a child, but can be quite funny when considering that one's identity is conscious energy which changes form, but cannot destroyed by time, or politics.
Real Information - Life Springs Eternal
Here is a song in the same mood as Sri Krishna speaking the Bhagavad Gita; it is a mood of unconditional love and support, when reaching out to his friend Arjuna - that's how I hear it anyway.
All props and respect to Jacob Collier, from whom I seek forgiveness rather than permission for any possible objection, for my interpretation and non-commercial use of his brilliant creative offering.
All props and respect to Jacob Collier, from whom I seek forgiveness rather than permission for any possible objection, for my interpretation and non-commercial use of his brilliant creative offering.
As mentioned in the sacred Vedic text Bhagavad Gita, Sri Krishna advises his friend and student Arjuna as follows:
2.20
TRANSLATION
For the soul there is never birth nor death. Nor, having once been, does he ever cease to be. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing, undying and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain.
10.11
TRANSLATION
Out of compassion for them, I, dwelling in their hearts, destroy with the shining lamp of knowledge the darkness born of ignorance.
2.20
TRANSLATION
For the soul there is never birth nor death. Nor, having once been, does he ever cease to be. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing, undying and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain.
10.11
TRANSLATION
Out of compassion for them, I, dwelling in their hearts, destroy with the shining lamp of knowledge the darkness born of ignorance.
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